The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s office incident reports:

Sister uses pepper spray on brother

A Grovetown woman said she sprayed her brother with pepper spray early Thursday because he attacked her.

The 22-year-old woman said her brother was upset at about 2 a.m. over a Twitter post and confronted her. Their mother tried to break up the fight, but the woman said her brother went around their mother and started hitting her. He then kicked and choked her.

After years of dealing with watering restrictions, low lake levels and drought, Columbia County officials are no longer concerned about having too little water. Now the problem is just the opposite -- too much

This summer has seen little sunshine, but brought mostly storm clouds and sogginess.

“We’ve had nothing but rain since the beginning of June,” Columbia County Emergency and Operations Division Director Pam Tucker said.

Every year, insects arrive in our gardens and landscapes to devour everything in sight. Usually, the Japanese beetle makes its presence known earlier in the spring, but the extension office received a lot of calls about them last week.

The Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newman, is a widespread and destructive pest of turf, landscape and ornamental plants. It is a pest of several fruit, garden, and field crops, and feeds on more than 300 plant species. Adult Japanese beetles feed on foliage, flowers, and fruits.

Switching tassels from the right side of their caps to the left, 46 Columbia County high school students became the latest to join the Class of 2013, Friday night.

At the Columbia County Summer School Commencement Exercise in the Evans High School gym, five county high schools were represented, each group proudly wearing their school colors. Just four students out of 50 were unable to participate in the commencement exercises.

A crash Thursday afternoon sent one woman to the hospital for observation.

At approximately 3:25 p.m., 84-year-old Betty Leitner was attempting to cross Stevens Creek Road in her 1997 Ford Crown Victoria and ran a stop sign coming out of the Watervale subdivision, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Deputy David Herrity.

Jimmie Bodie, of Evans, was driving his 2005 Ford F-150 truck north on Stevens Creek Road, swerved to avoid Leitner and clipped her right rear quarter panel. Leitner hit the curb and flipped.